THE VEIL OF MAYA 3 (EDT OF 35)

Tiane Doan na Champassak
THE VEIL OF MAYA 3 (EDT OF 35)

Photographs: Tiane Doan Na Champassak

Publisher: self published

24 pages

Year: 2020

Price: 550 €

Comments: Lay-flat-bound hardcover, 28 x 28 x 5 cm, comes with 2 signed and numbered Fujiflex Crystal Archive prints. Edition of 35 copies.

“The Veil of Maya 3” can be easily subscribed to the tradition of the so called acheiropoieta, a Greek notion that generally defines the “icons made without hands”. The mysterious images composing this experimental artist-book consist of found contact sheet prints from the 60s on top of which random negatives got stuck, mainly due to storage, time and humidity. This appropriated material builds up a constellation of its own: floating in their ethereal appearance, the feminine nudes decompose their transparency in sibylline conjunctions, revealing themselves as desirable “icons” miraculously conceived.